Candidates get into gear for nearing SA elections
Kyle Wrather
Issue date: 2/1/08 Section: News
Editor's Note: The Reflector will continue SA coverage between today and the Feb. 19 elections with profiles of candidates and articles about election issues.
Students will hit the polls to vote on who will represent them next year on the Student Association Executive Council Feb. 19.
Positions filled will be president, treasurer and attorney general. The positions of vice president and secretary are uncontested.
The candidates running for SA president are junior general business administration major Braxton Coombs and senior biological engineering major Jeral Self. Both candidates currently serve on the Executive Council, Coombs as attorney general and Self as administrative liaison.
Running uncontested are junior secondary education and political science major Braxton Stowe for vice president and senior political science major Whitney Holliday for secretary.
For the position of SA treasurer, students will choose between juniors Sean Galligan, Will Moon and Ross Weems. Sophomores Blake Jeter and David Thorne will face off for the position of attorney general.
SA election commissioner Phillip Bass said he expects more than 1,000 voters to participate in the elections which will feature two polling places near the center of campus.
"There will be two polling locations," Bass said. "One will be in the Mitchell Memorial Library main lobby, and the other will be in the Union in the Dawg House."
The elections will follow the same format used in the past couple years. Students swipe their identification cards and vote on the computer, he said.
"It takes about a minute-and-a-half, and then you're done," Bass said.
In recent years, the SA has relied on candidates' campaigns to raise interest in the elections, but this year there are plans to further capture student interest by including plans to conduct a debate a week before the election, he said.
"[The debate] will help let people know what these [candidates] are about and also help get the word out about the elections," Bass said. "In the past with some of these elections, we let the fact that people are out campaigning just do the public relations, but we're trying to do a little bit more this year."
Students will hit the polls to vote on who will represent them next year on the Student Association Executive Council Feb. 19.
Positions filled will be president, treasurer and attorney general. The positions of vice president and secretary are uncontested.
The candidates running for SA president are junior general business administration major Braxton Coombs and senior biological engineering major Jeral Self. Both candidates currently serve on the Executive Council, Coombs as attorney general and Self as administrative liaison.
Running uncontested are junior secondary education and political science major Braxton Stowe for vice president and senior political science major Whitney Holliday for secretary.
For the position of SA treasurer, students will choose between juniors Sean Galligan, Will Moon and Ross Weems. Sophomores Blake Jeter and David Thorne will face off for the position of attorney general.
SA election commissioner Phillip Bass said he expects more than 1,000 voters to participate in the elections which will feature two polling places near the center of campus.
"There will be two polling locations," Bass said. "One will be in the Mitchell Memorial Library main lobby, and the other will be in the Union in the Dawg House."
The elections will follow the same format used in the past couple years. Students swipe their identification cards and vote on the computer, he said.
"It takes about a minute-and-a-half, and then you're done," Bass said.
In recent years, the SA has relied on candidates' campaigns to raise interest in the elections, but this year there are plans to further capture student interest by including plans to conduct a debate a week before the election, he said.
"[The debate] will help let people know what these [candidates] are about and also help get the word out about the elections," Bass said. "In the past with some of these elections, we let the fact that people are out campaigning just do the public relations, but we're trying to do a little bit more this year."
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